Blue moon eclipse to be seen January 31

25/01/2018

Moons in a total eclipse are sometimes called "blood moons" because they can be seen with a reddish hue because of the way the atmosphere bends the light, NASA said.

It's being called a "Super Blue Blood Moon" and it's special for three reasons according to NASA: it's the third in a series of "supermoons", that's when the Moon is closer to Earth in its orbit and is brighter than usual.

For those in the eastern USA, the eclipse will begin at 5:51 a.m. on January 31. The darkness of the eclipse depends on the amount of dust in our atmosphere and on how deeply the moon penetrates the earth's shadow. It's dubbed a "Blue Moon" because it is the second full moon of a calendar month. But the viewing of the lunar eclipse will be especially cool because the full moon will also be a supermoon.

The event will combine 3 phenomena at the same time, a blue moon, a supermoon, and a total lunar eclipse, which will be most visible in the Eastern hemisphere.

"The lunar eclipse on January 31 will be visible during moonset", Noah Petro, a research scientist from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, said on the.

A lunar eclipse is visible from Earth at night and 2018's first celestial event will be visible in India as well. "Set your alert early and go out and investigate".

It can be best seen along the West Coast, but those in the central USA and East Coast will see a partial eclipse. Thus the "super blue moon". Instead of sunlight reflecting on the moon's surface, Earth's shadow falls on it.

For the Central and Mountain time zones, NASA says viewers will start to see the rare moon cycle come into view just before 5 a.m. local time and reach the peak of the blood moon eclipse between 6:15 and 6:30 a.m. As noted by Space, a blue moon is "the appearance of an additional full moon within a given period". The event will end at around 6:05 a.m. PT. "The whole character of the moon changes when we observe with a thermal camera during an eclipse", said Paul Hayne of the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics at the University of Colorado-Boulder, the HT report said.

Mythology - Cultures from all over the world have different explanations for lunar eclipses, according to National Geographic.

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